Easter Monday

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The children in this week's picture are Dylan (left) and Charlotte, my inexpressibly cute grand nephew and niece.

Along with a whirlwind trip out west - where, after experiencing how my hip reacted to a normal seat during the flight out, no price seemed too great to pay to upgrade to a return flight seat with more leg room - this has been an inexpressibly strange week.

Time for a quick trip to the land of the Yessir Yessir Highway and our friend the Queen and her Advisors.

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After receiving fresh orders from the Head Troll, the Ruler of a small and pleasant realm felt that she had no choice but to demand a spell from her wizard, a spell that would do the work of one hundred with the hands of only one or two.

"But," said the wizard, a grey-bearded one-time casino dealer with long robes and shifty eyes, "no such magic exists." 

With this phase the Wizard began the call and response script of the Official Protocol of Ridiculous Requests.

"Of course it does," sniped the Queen, following the Protocol.

"Well," responded the Wizard, "it can be done, but it will cost a million dollars."

"I don't have that kind money," replied the Ruler.

"And will take a million days,"added the Wizard.

"I don't have that kind of time," said the Ruler.

"What have you got?" asked the Wizard.

"Two hundred dollars and I need it by later this afternoon."

"I'll see what I can do," said the Wizard, completing the Official Protocol script.

Later that day, the Wizard stood before the Ruler with the product of their negotiation, a handful of bright balloons. 

"They're a little small," said the Ruler.

"What did you expect?" snarled the Wizard.

"Something bigger," whined the Ruler.

"I'll see what I can do," said the Wizard.

A very short time later, the Wizard returned with the same balloons, each blown up bigger than before.

"Happy now?" asked the Wizard.

"It'll have to do," said the Ruler, looking at the large clock on the wall. "We're going to be late."

The Wizard and the Ruler both went forth on the Yessir Yessir Highway to get to the Troll Bridge in time for their audience with the Head Troll. 

Fewer corpses than usual littered the Troll Bridge grounds. 

"That's a good sign," thought the Ruler. And it was.

"Good work!" said the Head Troll, obviously pleased with the overinflated, bright and shiny balloons. "Is there anything I should be on the lookout for as I take these to the Emperor?"

"Only anything with a point," said the Ruler. 


Bricking it for Canada

If you don't do anything else to amuse yourself/waste some time this week, please watch this video.

Then visit this site.

And click away. You can see they have a long, long way to go, and it's very important that we build that wall.

Thanks for reading!

Have great week!

Karen